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The Kob-lu-nas, or the luniiits, made a big hole in the bottom of the ship, 

 as if they had wanted to sink it. The Innuits got two big long saws from the 

 ship that the Kob-lu-nas had used to saw ice with and took them to the land. 

 The Innuits saw that nearlj' the whole of one side of the vessel had been crushed 

 in by the heavy ice that was about it, and thought that was why the Kob-lu-nas 

 had left it and gone to the land and lived in the tents. By and by the Kob-lu-nas 

 froze and starved. Among the things the Innuits got from the ship were a great 

 manyood-loos (Innuit women's knives, like our domestic mincing or chopping 

 knives in the States). These were all good, just what all the women wanted. 

 Every woman had one, and there were more than enough for each woman and 

 girl. Besides these, they got a great many knives for the men, such as pe-louds 

 and pan-nas (small or short bladed, and long-bladed knives), a great many spoons 

 and forks, a good many bright rings for the fingers, a great many round thin 

 pieces of metal (medals and pieces of money, Too-koo-li-too says these must have 

 been, from old Ook-bar-loo's description). Some were red, some white, and some 

 looked like the metal ka-roons (a brass ornament worn on the foreheads of the 

 Innuits here and at Neitch-il-le) are made of. (Too-koo-li-too thinks some of these 

 money and medal i)ieces were bright gold and others brass). 



Thursday, Bec^r 15th, 1864. — 1.30 P. M — The astounding news that Ag-loo-ka 

 (Crozier) arrived, with one man, among the Kin-na-pa-toos, his powder and shot 

 nearly all gone ! I must give the particulars of the above startling news, as given 

 me a few moments ago. At the time I got the above information there were, as 

 usual through the day and evening, several Innuits in our igloo. The An-nat-koo's 



(Ar-too-a's) wife, and the wife of , and the old man. See-gar, were aU seated on 



the dais or bed-platform, while Too-koo-li-too was at her place by her fire-lamp, en 

 gaged telling these visitors about Ag-loo-ka (Crozier). Too-koo-li-too had just 

 made the sympathetic remark — " What a pity it is that Ag-loo-ka and the two 

 men who started together from Neitchille for the purpose of getting to the Kob-lu- 

 nas country had never arrived." Old See-gar listened, as did the other Innuits 

 present, to all that Too-koo-li-too said, and when she made the last remark. See- 

 gar sprang from his seat, quick as a flash, and looking staringly at Too-koo-li-too, 

 exclaimed with great force and sui-prise, " What ! Ag-loo-ka not got back ! Why," 

 continued See-gar, "the Kin-na-pa-toos (Innuits who belong to Chesterfield Inlet) 

 told me several years ago that Ag-loo-ka and one man with him arrived among 

 their (the Kin-na-pa-toos) people, and that they (Ag-loo-ka and his men) had gone 

 to where the Kob-lu-nas live further down the Big Bay" (to Churchill or York 

 Factory, as Too-koo-li-too thinks See-gar tried to explain it). I was greatly in- 

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